From phma@oltronics.net Thu Aug 03 20:48:22 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20033 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2000 03:48:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 4 Aug 2000 03:48:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 4 Aug 2000 03:48:21 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA19725 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:48:15 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.44, neofelis, , 207.15.133.44 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 23:48:15(EDT) on August 03, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: bottleful was Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:44:24 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00080323481505.00884@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat >When it is true that it will do wonders, it is still in the can, >so there is no problem there. What is more of a problem is using >{lo se botpi} for "a bottleful", because there is nothing to >indicate that it must fill a bottle, only that it be in one. botydekpu x1 is x2 bottlefuls by standard x3 or in bottle x3 (the bottle is the standard by which bottlefuls are measured) phma